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In a genre known for its castles, crypts and candelabras, Italian Gothic also embraced themes of violence, madness and sexual deviance. With these 4 films, those impulses dare to go even deeper: In 1964's THE MONSTER OF THE OPERA, director Renato Polselli and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi craft a surreal erotic shocker set within a contemporary dance troupe. Perhaps the genre's rarest film, the berserk supernatural narrative of 1965's THE SEVENTH GRAVE also makes it among the strangest. For 1970's SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER, director José Luis Merino gathers classic traditions, then strips them naked and ties them to a torture rack. And 1971's LADY FRANKENSTEIN delivers iconic EuroCult talent on both sides of the camera for one of the most luridly entertaining shockers of the decade. The films in this collection are now fully restored from their original negatives, with 12+ collective hours of Special Features.

THE MONSTER OF THE OPERA

Commentary With Kat Ellinger

Interview With Ernesto Gastaldi

Interview With Mark Thompson-Ashworth

Archival Audio Interview With Renato Polselli

THE SEVENTH GRAVE

Commentary With Rachael Nisbet

Interview With Fabio Melelli

Video Essay By Rachel Knightley

SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER

Commentary With Rod Barnett & Robert Monell

Interview With Erna Schurer

Video Essay By Stephen Thrower

LADY FRANKENSTEIN

Commentary With Kat Ellinger & Annie Rose Malamet

Commentary With Alan Jones & Kim Newman

Featurette With Rosalba Neri & Fabio Melelli

Piecing Together LADY FRANKENSTEIN

Documentary Short On Mel Welles

German TV Documentary

Clothed Insert Shots

Video Short Illustrating BBFC Censorship Cuts

Italian Opening Credits

Italian LADY FRANKENSTEIN Photo Novel

And More!

Media

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Bonus Materials

• Audio Commentary For THE MONSTER OF THE OPERA With Kat Ellinger, Author of Daughters Of Darkness
• Terror At The Opera - Interview With Screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi
• Capodimonte Gothic - Interview With Italian Film Devotee Mark Thompson-Ashworth
• Radio Polselli - Archival Audio Interview With Director Renato Polselli
• French Trailer for THE MONSTER OF THE OPERA
• Audio Commentary For THE SEVENTH GRAVE With Rachael Nisbet, Film Critic And Co-Host Of Fragments Of Fear
• Seven Graves And A Mystery - Interview With Film Historian Fabio Melelli
• English Aesthetic With Giallo Blood - Video Essay By Gothic Scholar And Author Rachel Knightley
• Audio Commentary For SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER With Rod Barnett, Film Historian And Co-Host Of NaschyCast, And Robert Monell, Writer And Editor Of I'm In A Jess Franco State Of Mind
• Scream Erna Scream! - Interview With Actress Erna Schurer
• In The Castle Of Blood - Video Essay By Stephen Thrower, Author Of Books On Jess Franco And Lucio Fulci
• SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER Trailer
• Audio Commentary For LADY FRANKENSTEIN With Kat Ellinger, Author Of Daughters Of Darkness, And Annie Rose Malamet, Film Scholar And Host Of Girls, Guts, Giallo
• Audio Commentary For LADY FRANKENSTEIN With Alan Jones, Author Of Dario Argento: The Man, The Myths & The Magic, And Kim Newman, Author Of Nightmare Movies
• Meet The Baroness - Featurette With Actress Rosalba Neri And Film Historian Fabio Melelli
• Piecing Together LADY FRANKENSTEIN
• The Lady And The Orgy - Documentary Short On Director Mel Welles
• The Truth About LADY FRANKENSTEIN (2007) - German TV Documentary
• Clothed Insert Shots
• Video Short Illustrating BBFC Censorship Cuts
• Italian Opening Credits
• Bigfilm Magazine (1971) - Italian LADY FRANKENSTEIN Photo Novel
• Extensive Image Gallery
• Home Video Gallery
• Radio Spots
• TV Spot
• Trailers for LADY FRANKENSTEIN

Sales Points

• For fans of THE CAT AND THE CANARY
• For fans of Italian cinema
• For fans of gothic cinema
• For fans of FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS
• For fans of FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN
• For fans of FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED
• For fans of THE VAMPIRE AND THE BALLERINA

Press Quotes

Italian Gothic was born from the thrill of transgression.

     —Roberto Curti, Italian Gothic Horror Films

THE MONSTER OF THE OPERA: Insanity reigns here... It's gothic, sinister, erotic and crazy. Those willing to cross genre boundaries will be richly rewarded.

     —Italo-Cinema

THE MONSTER OF THE OPERA: Part Gothic horror, part erotic madness... If you're a fan of Polselli's delirious S&M fever nightmares from the early '70s, you're going to love this.

     —At the Mansion of Madness

THE SEVENTH GRAVE: Entertaining and quite fun... It's full of little moments that make your heart beat faster and the séance scene is powerfully creepy.

     —Italo-Cinema

THE SEVENTH GRAVE: One of Italian Gothic's most elusive titles.

     —Roberto Curti, Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969

SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER: Kinkiness and violent depravity ensue... It's an Italian/Spanish co-production, which is the best of both worlds for EuroHorror fanatics.

     —DVD Drive-In

SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER: Irresistibly groovy '70s Euro-horror... It blends FRANKENSTEIN, THE WOLF MAN and JANE EYRE into a heady brew that's either classically gothic or hopelessly kitsch.

     —The Spinning Image

LADY FRANKENSTEIN: Pure drive-in bliss... Fun gothic horror with kinky sequences that predate the depraved antics of FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN.

     —Mondo Digital

LADY FRANKENSTEIN: Evil never looked so sexy... Rosalba Neri will steal your heart, spleen, liver and all the fun bouncy bits.

     —Horror News